Product

Overview

How it works Watch it work All 35 features Screenshots How ForgeRepo™ is secured

Keep bad packages out

Malware scanning Typosquat detection Dependency confusion protection Cooling off new releases Allow lists and block lists

When something goes wrong

Kill switch Who has it Lockdown and degraded modes Vulnerability monitoring

Developers and approvals

Requests and auto approve Check, walk and review Waivers Dry run
Formats

Languages

Private npm registry PyPI proxy and private index Private NuGet feed and proxy Maven repository proxy RubyGems mirror Composer and Packagist proxy

Apple, containers and Linux

CocoaPods CDN mirror Swift package registry Docker registry mirror RPM mirror for dnf and yum APT mirror for Debian and Ubuntu

Use it as

An npm firewall Artifacts, SBOMs and lifecycle More than one node SSO, roles and allow lists
Learn

Guides

Learn secure development Secure coding Secure pipelines Unsafe vs safe Security and development

Supply chain

Supply chain attacks, 2016 to 2026 Software supply chain security
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Docs

Start

Getting started Download All documentation Questions

For developers

npm setup pip setup docker login Push a Docker image CI basics

For administrators

First setup Rules and their order Six incidents, walked through Backup and upgrade
Pricing Install it
  1. Home
  2. Documentation
  3. Administrator Guide
  4. Licenses, lookalikes and provenance

Security protections

Licenses, lookalikes and provenance

License rules, typosquat detection, and signed build provenance.

Licenses

Settings, Licenses tab. What to do about it: off, warn or enforce. Under enforce, a license on the Needs review list is held for review and one on Blocked is held and rejected. For MIT OR GPL-3.0 the most permissive part counts. For AND the strictest part counts.

Lookalike packages

Typosquat checks (warn, block or off) compare new names against popular packages and your own busiest ones, looking for swapped letters, look alike characters like 0 for o, extra words like -js, and scope tricks. Warn prints a TYPOSQUAT notice, block refuses. In whitelist mode an unknown name is already refused by the rules first. The Lookalike packages page lists findings and lets you mark one not a typosquat.

Provenance

For npm and PyPI, ForgeRepo™ verifies Sigstore signed build provenance against the exact file it holds. Results are VERIFIED, PRESENT_UNVERIFIED, MISSING or INVALID, shown on Artifacts. When provenance is INVALID: warn (default) or hold.